Senior UNIX DevOps Engineer

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Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
Mid level
Information Technology
The Role
The Senior UNIX DevOps Engineer will support and develop a PaaS solution on OpenShift and OpenStack. Responsibilities include providing technical support, monitoring system performance, documenting processes, and implementing continual service improvements. The role demands strong automation skills, troubleshooting various technologies, and the ability to work within a team or autonomously.
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Job Description:

At DXC, one of our platinum accounts has openings for PaaS System Administrators for varying skill levels. The successful candidate will work within a small team which will require a good level of knowledge on DevOps engineering methodologies and that is comfortable working within a cloud development environment. The role involves developing and supporting an existing OpenShift on OpenStack PaaS solution with an attitude towards delivering zero-ops which will require strong automation skills. The ideal candidate would be innovative and analytical with a good eye for detail. Your role will include implementing standards, policies, and procedures for continual service improvement.

Role responsibilities:

  • Provide first and second level technical support on incidents and problems
  • Monitor overall system performance and ensure smooth system functionality
  • Create, maintain, and utilise documentation
  • Assist building compliance with our processes and policies
  • Able to work autonomously or within high functioning team environment

What you will bring to the team:

  • Excellent organisation and time management skills
  • Working to ITIL best practices
  • Desire to improve processes, looking for the root cause of a problem
  • Willingness to both share your knowledge and learn from others
  • A proactive approach towards looking for risks and problems
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • An ability to adapt quickly and work in an agile fashion

Desirable Skills and Technologies

Ideally required:

  • At least two years of hands-on production experience on Linux, OpenShift
  • Good knowledge on Linux, Kubernetes and OpenShift
  • Role based access control in relation to OpenShift roles and SCC's
  • Good troubleshooting skills on OpenShift and Kubernetes
  • Good troubleshooting skills in Docker and Podman
  • Confidence in using GIT/Source Control
  • Good CI/CD pipeline understanding
  • Ansible automation
  • Ability to write technical documentation

Desirable Experience:

  • Experience with ArgoCD, Istio/Service Mesh, Tekton and Helm Charts will be added advantage
  • OpenShift monitoring and writing custom alerting using Prometheus Alertmanager
  • CheckMK to monitor physical infrastructure 
  • Experience with Red Hat Quay Container Registry
  • Experience with Red Hat CEPH Storage
  • Experience with Red Hat OpenStack
  • Experience with maintaining Dell PowerEdge Servers

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Top Skills

Ansible
Argocd
Checkmk
Ci/Cd
Docker
Git
Helm Charts
Istio
Kubernetes
Linux
Openshift
Podman
Prometheus
Red Hat Ceph
Red Hat Openstack
Red Hat Quay
Tekton
The Company
HQ: Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
86,261 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2017

What We Do

DXC Technology is a Fortune 500 global IT services leader. Our more than 130,000 people in 70-plus countries are entrusted by our customers to deliver what matters most. We use the power of technology to deliver mission critical IT services across the Enterprise Technology Stack to drive business impact. DXC is an employer of choice with strong values, and fosters a culture of inclusion, belonging and corporate citizenship. We are DXC.

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